The rise of the saints, part 19

I rewrote the last paragraph of Part 18. Here is what it now says:

The saints were still rising, and the signs were beginning to make clear who was on which side of this battle. Both the US Government and the Vatican, as institutional powers, are part of the Babylonian system that is being overthrown. Neither will survive when the dominion is given to the saints of the Most High.

Continuing with our study…

On June 13, 2013 President Obama began to implement the globalist policy to overthrow Syria by announcing that Syria had “crossed the line.” This was used to justify sending aid to the so-called “rebels,” essentially hiring them to overthrow Syrian president Assad. This marked an important turning point in the support of ISIS (or ISIL), which the CIA was creating as early as 1999 in its plan to overthrow seven countries in five years.

General Wesley Clark learned of this plan in 2002 and spoke about it many times in speeches.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.”

The “rebels” in Syria would take the name ISIS officially in June 2014. It was the acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or Levant). The plan partially succeeded, and Egypt was added to the list of overthrown countries. However, the plan floundered in Syria and never reached Iran. The globalist plan ultimately failed when Russian president Putin destroyed ISIS, beginning in September of 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war

The US government was then forced to join Russia in fighting ISIS in order to save face and take the credit for the victory from Russia. However, the US policy was clear: ISIS was an ally of the US government. Senator John McCain was seen in many photos meeting with the leaders of ISIS, and President Obama made it clear that the US government was sending billions of dollars to aid ISIS in its attempt to overthrow the president of Syria.

The Prophesied Famine

From August 6 to September 14, 2013 (Yom Kippur), we held a 40-day prayer campaign (a time of intercession) to end the famine of hearing the word. It was based on Amos 8:11, 12,

¹¹ “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the Lord. ¹² People will stagger from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they will go to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.”

There were two ways in which this famine might manifest. First, the word of the Lord might be withheld so that God’s will and plan would not be revealed at all. Second, God might blind the eyes of the people and stop their ears, creating a famine in the midst of plenty.

When we received revelation to engage in this time of intercession, God connected this famine to the one in the latter part of David’s reign. 2 Samuel 21:1 says,

¹ Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

This famine occurred during the reign of David, but it was caused by the actions of Saul, his predecessor who had died decades earlier. It appears that God deferred the judgment, because Saul—a rebellious king—would not have repented for persecuting the Gibeonites. By deferring the judgment to the reign of David, God ensured that the problem would be resolved.

The Gibeonites had made a covenant with Joshua in Joshua 9:15,

¹⁵ Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

No doubt Saul had justified his persecution by insisting that the Gibeonites had deceived Joshua into making a covenant with them. Saul thought that their deception made Israel’s oath null and void. But God ruled against Saul, and for this reason Israel experienced a three-year famine in the time of David.

The Great Famine

Breaking their treaty with the Gibeonites established the prophetic pattern for future generations who would see a greater famine—a famine of hearing the word. America has broken most of its treaties with the Native Americans. Most of these broken treaties occurred during the 1800’s, and then God poured out His Spirit in the early 1900’s in order to cause the church to repent. If they had demanded that their government repent of its sin, the nation might have avoided the final captivity to Mystery Babylon, which occurred through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

This Act also ushered us into the Laodicean Church age, the seventh church, the church of the captivity. The church of Laodicea is described in Revelation 3:17, 18, 19 which says,

¹⁷ Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. ¹⁹ Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.”

This prophesies of the condition of the church in the latter days. By outward appearances, this church was “wealthy” but spiritually “poor.” It was clothed with fine garments but was spiritually “naked.” It could see with physical eyes but was spiritually “blind.” So God counseled this church to obtain “eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.”

Spiritually speaking, seeing and hearing go together. Hence, by extension, the Laodicean church was not only blind but also deaf. There was a famine of hearing the word of the Lord, not that they had no Bible, nor even that they lacked the gift of prophecy, but that they did not understand what they were hearing and seeing.

Godly Zeal

Saul himself was religiously zealous in his persecution of the Gibeonites. No doubt he thought he was pleasing God. But his zealousness was misplaced. He should have had the zeal of Christ, who drove out the money changers in the temple. John 2:17 comments on this, saying,

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

This is the zeal that the Laodicean church should have had, when Jesus instructed them: “therefore be zealous and repent.” In other words, repent of your carnal zeal and take upon yourselves the zeal of Christ. Cleanse your temple of its banking system which has merchandised the house of God.

The Pentecostal movement in the early 1900’s saw a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but men like Smith Wigglesworth also decried the church for its lack of hearing the word. The church’s focus was upon miracles, and many forsook the word as if it were carnal or “head knowledge.” They should have understood that any time we reject any part of the word of the Lord, we become blind and deaf in that area.

In particular, the Pentecostal outpouring, though great and marvelous in many ways, failed to rise above the rebellion of Saul—who himself was crowned on the day of “wheat harvest,” i.e., Pentecost (1 Samuel 12:17). The Laodicean church, then, perpetuated the life of King Saul, who, among other things, persecuted the Gibeonites. The church’s failure to repent and to demand that their government keep its treaties ensured that the famine of hearing the word would continue at least for another century.

So in August of 2013 God revealed that we were to enter a 40-day time of repentance and intercession for all of the broken treaties in past centuries. Saul had (prophetically) died in 1993, after reigning for 40 Jubilee cycles. The year 2013 was 20 years into the reign of “David.” Thus, on behalf of the “David” company, we were called to do what the “Saul” church as a whole had failed to do in the early 1900’s.

It should be noted, of course, that in more recent years some in the church have indeed repented, acknowledging the sin of their own government in breaking its treaties. Our time of intercession in 2013 was not the first of its kind by any means but added our voice to the repentance prayers of all who have done so in the past. In fact, there were Christians throughout the 1800’s and even earlier who sought to do what was right but whose objections were drowned out by the ungodly zeal and cacophony of the majority.

In 2013 we were led to call for forty days of repentance from August 6 to September 14, which culminated on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Jewish tradition also recognizes this 40-day period, which commemorates the 40 days that the 12 spies searched the land (Numbers 14:34).

In the broader context of the rise of the saints to rule the earth in Christ’s Kingdom, we see that in order for the saints to rule with impartiality and equal justice for all, they must possess the zeal of Christ. They are called to cleanse the house of God from its merchandisers, its spiritual Canaanites. The Hebrew word for zeal is qana, or Cana.

Cana is also the root word for Canaanite (kena’aniy). The word means a merchant or banker.  So Job 41:6 says,

⁶ Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him among the merchants? [kena’aniy]

The merchants of Canaan were known for their unscrupulous business dealings. The temple priests had followed their example in forcing the people to buy their sacrificial animals at exorbitant prices. Jesus overturned their tables (ledgers) and drove out these merchant priests with a whip. We ourselves should have such zeal (in the appropriate time and manner), because in the end, Zechariah 14:21 says,

²¹ ... And there will no longer be a Canaanite [banker] in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day.

The broken treaties in the 1800’s were motivated by theft and greed. Stealing land took precedence over keeping their word. This was the spirit behind modern banking, which the church has largely adopted in its own business practices. For this reason, God put the Laodicean church into captivity to the modern Canaanites, who own the Federal Reserve Bank. These are the globalists who are attempting to steal everyone’s land so they may be lords of the whole earth.

During our time of intercession in 2013, we undercut their ungodly plan, not by targeting the bankers but by repenting of the sin in the house of God itself. May God grant all of us a heart of repentance and godly zeal.